Weirdhouse Cinema: Hands of Steel

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Weirdhouse Cinema: Hands of Steel

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Mar 19, 2021

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This week’s episode of Weirdhouse Cinema is 30 percent human, 70 percent robot and 100 percent lethal -- because the subject is the 1986 Italian sci-fi action film “Hands of Steel,” a cyborg arm wrestling movie set in the dystopian future of 1997.
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Mar 19, 2021

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